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Messrs. Methuen’s New Books: … (includes) … E. F. Pinsent, “Children of this World” by Ellen F. Pinsent, Author of “Jenny’s Case”, Crown 8vo 6s …
[see related: National Observer: Saturday 1st June & 13th July 1895]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
A Harborne Authoress: Amid the tons of veritable rubbish that teems from the press sunder the name of literature, it is consoling to find now and again a work really worthy of being classed as such, and those who turn to the “Children of this world,” just issued by Messrs. Methuen and Co., may have every confidence of being able to peruse it without disappointment. This is the second published work of Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, a well-known resident of Harborne; and the popularity she achieved in “Jenny’s Case,” published some two years ago, will be considerably enhanced by her present venture. Her views in some respects may leave room for misconception in the mind of the reader, but of the abilities of Mrs. Pinsent as a writer, there cannot be two opinions. She is evidently a keen observer, a studious thinker and a faithful delineator of character, and her pages follow each other with a sort of crispness and smoothness which is quite refreshing; especially so after the laboured attempts necessary to get through some of the works of the “Robert Elsmere” and “Marcella” type. With a temerity that can certainly be admired, Mrs. Pinsent has essayed to tackle the subject of Agnosticism and discusses with much acumen and lucidity some of the deeper mysteries of life and death, not unmindful of the conditions under which we have now to live. A candid sceptic among the fairer sex may be regarded somewhat of a “rara avis,” but Janet Mauleverer we have one who can in some respects command esteem. She is presented as a being who stands out in striking contrast to the pious minded Rachel Millman, who, in an evil moment falls a victim to the perfidy of one she trusted, and ends by suicide, her blighted existence. … (continues) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Books of the Week: Fiction: … (includes) … “Children of this World” Ellen F. Pinsent, Methuen.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Messrs. Methuen announced that they will not publish any more novels in library form. During the next six weeks they will issue three stories in the more acceptable single volume. The first of these will be Mrs. Ellen F. Pinsent’s “Children of the World,” which is a study of two opposite types, the Christian and the Agnostic.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Messrs. Methuen announces that they will not publish any more novels in library form. During the next six weeks they will issue three stories in the more acceptable single volume. The first of these will be Mrs. Ellen F. Pinsent’s “Children of the World,” which is a study of two opposite types, the Christian and the Agnostic. …
[see also Norwood News: Saturday 30th March 1895]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Literary Jottings: Messrs. Methuen announce that they will not publish any more novels in library form. During the next six weeks they will issue three stories in the more acceptable single volume. The first of these will be Mrs. Ellen F. Pinsent’s “Children of the World,” which is a study of two opposite types, the Christian and the Agnostic.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
The “Standard” Special Column for New Books and Editions: … “Children of this World.” By Ellen F. Pinsent, Author of “Jenny’s Case.” Crown. 8vo. 6s.
[see similar on other dates]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
…. Yet among the bushels of chaff daily purveyed for the Queen’s long-suffering lieges one precious grain of wheat is sometimes found, and do not hesitate to appley the latter figure to the latest work of Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, entitled “Children of this World” (London: Methuen and co.) There is not a dull page in the book, which is yet built of solid material, discussion as it does the mysteries of life and death, the vxada question of Agnosticism. … (continues at length) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
“Children of this World” by Ellen F. Pinsent, (Methuen & Co.): The heroine of this in many ways clever though terribly depressing story does not by precept or example attach the tottering institution of marriage. She demolishes Christianity, for a change, in various conversations and in a magazine article, and the moral of the book is that the only alternative to infidelity is submission to the authority of the Romish Church, one of those easily formulated propositions at which lady novelists are apt to jump and take for fundamental and indisputable truths. But the agnostic pro paganism is pretty well subordinated to the presentation of human passions and actions. Janet, who is a Newnham girl with views, is an interesting character, and her relations with her lovers, especially with Ralph, who leaves the Church all for lover of her, but loses her in the end, are described with genuine power and truthfulness, though there is surely something wrong about the hint of a happy marriage with which the story closes. Even more interesting than Janet is her pious, believing, mystical friend Rachel, also a Newnham girl, who brought up in a lower middle-class Dissenting household, took to the Church, and found herself entirely out of sympathy with her surroundings, which, both in their religious and their social aspects, are capitally described though we doubt if her conduct towards her married lover was altogether natural, while he himself is a rather flabby creation, and we do not get a very clear or distinct idea of his personality. Surely, too, in ordinary society his marriage with Kitty, who is charming in her way, would have been postponed till he had got something definite to do; but, of course, in that case he would not have flirted with poor Rachel in the same perilous fashion, and in these days no novel can be regarded as complete even though Christianity is attacked in it, without the dramatic element of post-matrimonial love for a former flame or for a new one. We have not been able quite to make out who the children of this work are, but that does not matter and the story, though there is too much chatter in it, has many good points.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949
Books of the Week: … … Children of this World: by Ellen F. Pinsent (London: Methuen & Co.) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949